Everyone left this morning, saying that they should be back late tomorrow. They aren’t really going to make money or to challenge themselves, more to get some of the younger members use to diving. The overall power level of the dungeon is far below that of at least Mest, so even if something goes horribly wrong, it can’t go so wrong he can’t fix it.

Instead of practicing magic I decided to make a list of the things I am trying to accomplish, so I can better organize what I need to do in my head. I remember making a similar list a while ago.

In order of importance

Learn how to manipulate flesh without painfully killing anyone.

Learn how to properly harness Solar Energy.

Figure out what to do with my abilities.

Learn how to learn new fields of magic.

Learn how to control two or more puppets.

Create a miniature biome (something I hadn't really thought of till I reviewed my old entries.)

I decided to work mostly on the second one today. The first thing I did was ask the plants about it, they had no idea what I was talking about. Observing them for a while didn’t show Solar Energy gathering enough to be noticeable unless I knew what I was looking for, it seems all plants use it for is to turn it into mana.

One thing that’s bugging me is why doesn’t the Solar Energy get turned into mana by the ambient mana before it reaches a plant, or myself. The sun is far enough away that even if it was moving incredibly fast the ambient mana would still have more than enough time to consume the Solar Energy.

This was a surprisingly easy question to answer. Despite how hard I looked I couldn’t detect any Solar Energy in the air, while I could occasionally detect it in plants and myself. I even examined Talus and several goblins, none of them had even the slight trace of Solar Energy, ever. I’m thinking that plants somehow create it using the light that hits them, which would also explain why I had access to it when I shouldn’t have, as far as I know, most forest sprites can’t produce mana in the same way plants can, so I couldn’t have done it on my own. That leaves one possibility, my armor. It was drilled into my skin at hundreds of tiny points, so there was a very clear connection between it and myself, maybe clear enough to allow the excess Solar Energy it was producing from the two suns to flow into me. From there I used it to change myself in a way that allowed me to produce it on my own.

This insight gives me an idea for something I can try to maybe gather more Solar Energy if only I could get it together in a large enough quantity and move fast enough to overcome mana destroying it. My idea is something like a massive umbrella made up of leaf matter connected directly to my body. The idea is to maximize the surface area to allow more Solar energy to gather. The problem with that is the amount of mana increase at the same rate as the surface area does, meaning it would take a ludicrous surface area to make it functional.

Ugh, the is so frustrating, why does this have to be so difficult. I can’t decrease the amount of mana in the leaf without destroying its structural integrity, which makes it useless. I need a plant that has naturally very large and very durable leaves, something I don’t have. Yeah, I could make it with magic, but that defeats the purpose. I’m going to ask Par’s tribe to keep an eye out for such a plant while the explore the surrounding areas, but I doubt much will come of it.

As it is only around lunchtime while i’m writing this I am going to put down my work and just try to have fun with Talus for the rest of the day.